beautifying urban blight

I saw these images in an article over on Treehugger recently and am loving this act of radical gardening by street artist Posterchild.

Every city has a glut of empty flyer boxes or newspaper boxes that wind up vacant at best or filled with trash and I-don’t-even-want-to-know-what-else. They clog up the streets and are just plain ugly. Sadly these got taken down right away, but I would’ve loved to have seen them had I been in Toronto that morning.

[…] a Comment A few weeks ago I wrote a post about how street artists in Toronto were turning advertising boxes into planters. Well Toronto is steppin’ up its pace again with the latest round of plant street art by Sean […]